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An American friend living in Beijing once said she refused to communicate with anyone whose email address consisted of a string of numbers, such as 62718298454@163.com. This made sense to me at the time—why make email addresses as difficult to rememb...

Bit.ly says it has heard its disgruntled users loud and clear and is ready to change its ways -- again. After a backlash last week following a redesign of the site, Bit.ly announced Wednesday it has made some tweaks to make its beloved URL-shortening...

Jeff Ernst is a principal analyst at Forrester Research, serving CMOs and marketing leaders. One thing’s for sure: ICANN’s gTLD program is a game-changer. The introduction of new .brand and .category gTLDs represents the biggest change to the Interne...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Embedly Quick Pitch: Embedly is a platf...

The Better Profiles Series is supported by Gillette. Learn more about Gillette and its products at Gillette.com. While the rest of us were copy-and-pasting mumbo-jumbo from URL shorteners into our Twitter accounts, sites like The New York Times were ...

The phrase "Google it" is getting a whole new meaning today; the search giant has just released its goo.gl URL shortener to the public and created a standalone website so that anyone can use Google to shorten and track the URLs they share via social ...

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